Background
Thomson, Arthur Conover was born on April 16, 1871 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Elliot Heber and Jeanette Risdelle (Conover) Thomson.
Thomson, Arthur Conover was born on April 16, 1871 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Elliot Heber and Jeanette Risdelle (Conover) Thomson.
Student of University of Pennsylvania, 1887-1890. Graduate Theological Seminary, Virginia, 1893, Doctor of Divinity, 1915.
Deacon, 1893, priest, 1895, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector South Farnham Parish, Tappahannock, Virginia, 1893, Church of the Resurrection, Cincinnati, O., 1895. Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1899-1917.
Consecrated suffragan bishop Diocese of Southern Virginia, September 27, 1917. Bishop coadjutor, Diocese of Southern Virginia, May 26, 1919. Bishop of Southern Virginia, January 17, 1930-October 9, 1937.
Member Delta Upsilon.
Married Mary Grayson Fitzhugh, 1893.